Squarepusher - Hello Meow

What this video is

Filmed at KOKO, London in November 2005 and released as a promo in 2006, 'Hello Meow' represents the promotional visual strategy for Squarepusher's eighth studio album Hello Everything (Warp Records), a record widely received as a melodically accessible, jazz-inflected turn after the challenging density of Ultravisitor (2004). The video's raw, undirected live-capture aesthetic mirrors the album's own back-to-roots…

Why it matters

As the opening track and lead promo from Hello Everything, 'Hello Meow' functions as a genre threshold artifact: it bridges Squarepusher's drum-and-bass and IDM lineage with jazz fusion and accessible melodic electronic music. The track's 120 BPM tempo and A Minor tonality ground it in club-viable…